Please, do keep posting. We all realize that there are no more new content coming. For those of us who have seen it all many times over, closest thing to getting new Firelfy episodes is seeing them all for the very first time, through someone else’s eyes. I can’t speak for everyone, but I for one am living vicariously through you and discovering my love for Firely all over again! :o :o
(And also re-discovering my deep secret longing for Kaylee… :eek: )
Yeah, my longing for Kaylee’s not so secret. I’ve already informed my wife that she’s definitely on the top of “the list” for me. 
I caught “Trash” last night. What a great episode! I can’t believe Fox never aired this one, as it’s one where, to me, the show is finally hitting its stride, finding a consistent balance in tone between the silly, tongue-in-cheekness of “Our Mrs. Reynolds” (to which this is the sequel, DUH!)/“Shindig” and the more serious tone of “Out of Gas” and “War Stories” (by the way: did I comment on “War Stories?” That one’s another fantastic masterpiece of the one hour TV genre). And the FX work is simply beautiful. The CGI on Nathan Fillion’s butt is…what? You mean that’s his actual butt? Not fair!
Seriously, the FX work was beautiful and in this episode I think I got over my sense of the series feeling bound to a soundstage. The mansions floating on air above a water planet: what a gorgeous rendering of a potentially silly idea (hey, the Bluth Company had it as a concept on season three of Arrested Development. I wonder, given that Nathan Trudyk had a significant guest spot on season two of that show, if that was a reference…)! I also loved the twist to Saffron’s arc. I honestly believe Mal’s point of view that she wasn’t lying and really did care for her husband (her REAL husband)…and then she goes and steals his gun and throws ME for a loop (not Mal, though. Well, okay, maybe…). And then Inara comes and saves the day. What a lady!
Only three episodes and a movie (which I need to find a cheap copy of soon) to go. I’m starting to get sad about that. May need to spread this out a bit and re-watch some of the last three or four episodes which my wife hasn’t been able to join me for.
Funniest torture scene ever.
Also, gotta love Zoe. “That one.”
Hehe… Zoe… “This is something Captain has to do for himself…” “No! No, it’s not!”
This weekend my girlfriend and I got off at the wrong bus stop on a cross town adventure to a thrift store and ended up walking through Fort Stevens Park in upper NW DC. I stopped to read the sign explaining what had happened at Fort Stevens and learned that JUBAL EARLY had lead the Confederate forces there. The battle at Ft. Stevens is the only battle in American history where the President of the US was present and under enemy fire.
I was like, “JUBAL EARLY!!!” and took a cell phone pic, which I don’t want to pay to email to myself so I can post it, sorry guys.
The beauty of Firefly is that it never gets old and re-watching those same 14 episodes over and over is always enjoyable. The movie is great even though [spoiler]Wash AND Shepherd Book die[/spoiler].
And “Trash” is my favorite episode. Bet you can’t guess why. 
That went well.
What a great line that was!
Caught “The Message” last night as well as the featurette “This Was Firefly” or whatever it’s called. I’m so glad to find out, finally, what all the floppy hat talk was all about. “A man who wears a hat like that is not afraid of anything.” heh-heh!
I like how this episode starts off feeling disposable, as it were, and takes on deeper significance as it progresses. The war stories Zoe and Mal tell remembering their dead buddy (what was his name?). Wash’s fabulous reaction to seeing this dead guy walking around the ship again, followed by the pathos of a plan gone awry simply because of this guy’s inpatience and stupidity. It was all for nothing, ultimately. Utterly devastating!
Well, two episodes to go. 
An interesting sidenote that takes on increased resonance for our local composer (pun intended) is that the music that was composed for the funeral sequence was composed after the show had been cancelled. Greg Edmonson has stated that when he was composing the music for that scene it wasn’t for Tracey’s death, but the death of the show.
Thinking about that scene and the music still gives me goosebumps.
I feel your pain; however, you still have the existential awesomeness of “Objects in Space” left to go. Also, I highly recommend listening to Joss’s commentary track for that episode, especially if you need to brush up on your Camus.
I can’t imagine not knowing what a cunning hat looked like.
I like this episode, but don’t love it b/c of the lazy writers trick of having a plot that depends upon people not talking to each other when it makes no sense not to do so.
That said, as Solai alluded to, this was the last one shot, and the funeral scene was one of the very last (I think the last scheduled one) so the emotion is very real.
After seeing the documentary on this, I have to agree. And there’s a certain mournful quality to the last three episodes in general. (More on that in a moment.)
Taking over baby duties to let my poor wife sleep tonight (she’s literally unable to see straight anymore and with a concert last week I just couldn’t give the kind of help she needed or deserved, so I’m trying to make up for it this week) allowed me the bittersweet opportunity to watch the last two episodes of “Firefly” (interesting note: my wife took discs two and three to bed with her to watch on the portable player. There are now two browncoats in our household!), “Heart of Gold” and “Objects in Space” (interesting note: the actor who plays Jubal Early was one of the A.D.A’s on the first two years or so of Law and Order. Back then he had a much more innocent look). As I commented a moment ago to Solai re. “The Message,” there is a bittersweetness to these episodes that, had the series continued beyond them probably would not have been there. Perhaps it’s the fact that the stand at the bordello is the crew’s last. That the feelings between Inara and Mal remain, ultimately, unspoken and that Inara just feels like she needs to run from them. Or maybe it’s just that, when push came to shove, Jayne just covered himself up in his curtain and rolled over to go back to bed (this scene in “Objects in Space” is probably my favorite of the whole series. It’s set up as a clicheed heroic moment–with a fanfare and everything!–and it pays off as such a great laugh. Fantastic!).
“Objects in Space” is a terrific episode and serves as an adequate, if not entirely good wrap up to the series. The secrets are left unspoken though we’ve gotten to find out more about River (I keep waiting for her to say, “it’s not safe…for them,” but I know I have to wait to see Serenity for her arc to fully pay off) and other things remain tantalizingly hidden (we never did find out anything about the Blue Line (?) corporation and Book’s true identity, hinted at by Jubal’s enigmatic, “that ain’t no shepherd” is forever in mists, alas). How I wish that, indeed, Serenity had been successful enough to warrant another season of the show or, at least, another film or two (even with two characters gone)!
Ultimately, this will remain as perhaps one of the great (if not the greatest) “brilliant but cancelled” shows in the history of American television. So much was accomplished on such a short run and so much more could have been accomplished had the network supported this show the way it deserved and tried to give it a life. I suppose, though, that they tried this a year later with “Arrested Development,” a show that lasted three increasingly abbreviated seasons (each more brilliant than the last) only thanks to its critical response (although this was already in 2003-06 a show that whose audience primarily experienced on TIVO/DVR and/or DVD rather than traditional media and it continues to do well in video sales and has, like “Firefly,” a devoted following). “Firefly” should have been so lucky but, unfortunately, it “sounds a bit like science fiction” (“you live in a space ship, dear”). For such a short-lived show, though, it sure is an influential one! I am amazed at how familiar the style of it is thanks to the influence I now see it excerts on Battlestar Galactica. For all of that show’s grimness and philosophical weight (and seriously, who could find ANYTHING funny in the end of the world…okay, maybe Baltar and the Tighs) the visual and storytelling styles owe an incredible amount to “Firefly,” a debt that is acknowledged by the brief shot of the Serenity flying across the Caprican cityscape in the BSG miniseries.
So, that’s it. I’ve experienced “Firefly.” I was somewhat skeptical at first. Sometimes reluctant (cf. my thoughts on “Shindig”) but I must say that I am now, indeed, a fan. I regret that I will not be able to have this same, first experience ever again but am grateful that I can now go back and spend more time with these nine people who have become so familiar and beloved over the last weeks. Thank you, Lucky, for sharing this show with me and allowing me to see what it is that so many people see in it. I count myself lucky to be a new fan. Better late than never, I suppose.
I wanna comment more in detail, but I can’t. Because I’m tearing up a little bit. That was really well said, Armando, but having re-experienced my own first watch through your accounts, I can’t help but feel the loss again, just a little bit.
It’s just a stupid TV show. It’s just make-belief. But I really, really wish they were still flying.
Thank you Armando, that was great.
And deathbytray, I felt the same. Firefly is such a gem, I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve seen it all the way through. I love Serenity and her crew and the 'Verse.
Well, I’m not TOTALLY done yet as I just picked up Serenity on DVD. This won’t be the first time, though, as I’ve seen it twice before. It will, however, be the first time I’ve seen it knowing what the hell was going on to set the whole thing up. A splendid time is guaranteed for all!
Well, craaaap. For me it’s over - except for rewatching. Sigh.
What I miss most - the laughter. Including mine.
Yes, me too. They made me happy. Sigh…
